I. FONTS
II. SILKEY
    A. INSTALLING
    B. USING SILKEY
    C. TYPING NUMBERS
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I. FONTS

Drag & drop these font suitcases onto your system folder to install them.

WinMac SIL Dene fonts are copyrighted and are distributed under licence.  No charge may be made for the fonts themselves.  You may embed them in documents you produce for a fee, but no additional charge may be added for the fonts.

Windows fonts and keyboard utilities for editing WinMac extended characters are also available free of charge.


II. SILKEY

Installation:  If you want to type or edit Dene Language documents you will  need to install a WinMac Keyboard layout.  SILKey is included for this purpose.

A. INSTALLING SILKey (from a floppy disk)

1.	  Drag the FOLDER "WinMac SILKey Files" to any convenient location on your hard disk (for example, an Applications or Utilities folder).

2.   Drag the "SILKey Extension" file onto the icon of your (closed) System Folder. The Finder should automatically put it in the Extensions folder.

3.	  Restart your Macintosh, in order to activate the SILKey Extension (which is loaded during the boot process).

Note that holding down the mouse button during the startup process will prevent the SILKey Extension loading; if the extension is not loaded, the SILKey application will also refuse to run.


The above text is adapted from the stand-alone document "Using SilKey". 

The complete original SILKey archive as downloaded from the Summer Institute of Linguistics website  <http://www.sil.org> is on this disk in the file "SILKey_S.HQX".  You will not likely need the contents of that archive unless you intend to write your own custom keyboard layouts. It is only included to fulfil the  distribution requirements of this copyrighted freeware.

B. USING SILKEY

How to Use SilKey with the WinMac Dene Fonts.

1.	Make sure the SilKey system extension is loaded and the US keyboard is selected from the keyboards list in the Keyboard control panel.  

2.	Start the "SilKey"  application. 

3.	Load the appropriate WinMac Keyboard into SilKey using the "Install" button in the SilKey window.  The configuration files are named "WinMac Dene Key_SILKey" and "WinMac Vowel First Dene_SILKey".  (This only needs to be done once.  SilKey remembers installed Keyboards across sessions - unless they are removed)

		(N.B. You can also start SILKey by double-clicking on the "WinMac Dene Key_SILKey" or "WinMac Vowel First Dene_SILKey" keyboard layout files.  You can put an alias for your favourite on the desktop.)

(Before I changed the creator types you could NOT start SILKey by double clicking on the keyboard files.  Their creator types refered to the Weaver keyboard editor application.  If you accidentally double click an older version of them and start Weaver, just exit without saving anything to avoid accidentally overwriting the keyboard layout files.  The Weaver application is included in the original SILKey archive.)


4.	Make sure the Keyboard you wish to use is active - i.e. it has a green check in the SilKey Window.  Double click the red circle to turn it on.

5.	Switch to your application and start typing.  If you are unfamiliar with the keystrokes used in the Vowel First Dene or the older Dene Key (Number first) system, see the chart in the MS Word "KEYSTROKES.MCW" file in this folder.  Remember, when you are typing you must set the font to one of the WinMac Dene fonts for the Dene characters to display correctly.  If only high and/or low tones are correct but nasals become carats or deresis, then you have not set character formatting for WinMac fonts.

6.	To return your keyboard to normal English operation click on the green check in the SilKey window.  It will turn to a barred red circle.  SilKey is now inactive.  (If you want to activate it again simply click on the red circle.  Green check mark indicates it is active.)


This is the short version of the instructions.  For more complete details and graphic illustrations open the "Using SILKey" application.  

The complete original SILKey archive as downloaded from the SIL website  <http://www.sil.org> is on this disk in the file "SILKey_S.HQX".  That archive is not needed unless you wish to write your own custom keyboard layout. It is only included to fulfil the  distribution requirements of this copyrighted freeware.  A newer version may be available from the above website.

C. TYPING NUMBERS

Typing numbers presents unique problems in the WinMac system because the number keys are used to add diacritics to a vowel.  The old resource based keyboard drivers got around this problem by changing the control state of a keypress.  SilKey does not have this capability so I developed the following workaround.

Vowel First instructions
To type a 2 or a 3 instead of Upper and lower case shwa, one must place a / (slash) immediately before pressing the 2 or the 3 key.
If I want to type the numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8  it is no problem unless I want to put the number immediately after a vowel.
Since numbers 4 thru 8 are used for accenting vowels, the problem is how to keep from accenting a vowel when one wants to type a4, b4, c4, d4, e4, or a5, a6, a7, a8, etc.  The way this is done is to place a / (slash) before the number.  Pressing the number key will absorb the slash, print the number, and will prevent the number from accenting the vowel.  For consistancy's sake the same may be applied to any number;  the slash is not required and need not be typed after consonants or before numbers 1, 9, and 0.  But if one gets used to doing so it will be absorbed in those cases as well.

If one wants to put a slash between two numbers (e.g. 4/5) then the slash must be typed twice because  one is absorbed by the following number.  To type 2/3 the keystrokes required are "/", "2", "/", "/", "3"  This kludge may be fixed in a future revision but that's how it works for now. 


Dene Key instructions
To type a 2 or a 3 instead of Upper and lower case shwa, one must place a / (slash) immediately after pressing the 2 or the 3 key.
If I want to type the numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8  it is no problem unless I want to put the number immediately before a vowel.
Since 4 thru 8 are used for accenting, the problem is how to keep from accenting a vowel when one wants to type 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e, 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a, etc.  The way this is done is to place a / (slash) after the number.  the slash will be absorbed but will prevent the number from accenting the vowel.  For consistancy's sake the same may be applied to any of the numbers from 1 thru 9 and 0;  the slash is not required and need not be typed but if one gets used to doing so it will be absorbed after a 1, 9, or 0.

If one wants to put a slash between two numbers (e.g. 4/5) then the slash must be typed twice because the first one is absorbed even when it is not followed by a vowel.  To type 2/3 the keystrokes required are "2", "/", "/", "3", "/"  This kludge may be fixed in a future revision but that's how it works for now. 




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